Hidden inside details sit details and dilates, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 252 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble ISALTED, STEADLI or TADLIES and you get the same 7 letters as DETAILS: so the words from DETAILS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
details and dilates tie for the highest Scrabble score from details at 8 points. The top 10 of 252 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in details: one comes from rearranging its letters, and details itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with details. For points, the strongest plays are details and dilates — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling details turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with detail, ladies and lasted. For points, 20 words tie at 7 points, including detail, ladies and lasted.
There are 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in details. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, aside and dates. For points, 41 words tie at 6 points, including aside, dates and deals.
Rearranging the letters in details produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, date and deal. For points, 42 words tie at 5 points, including aids, date and deal.
Unscrambling details turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and ate. For points, 17 words tie at 4 points, including ads, aid and die.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in details. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
16 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in details plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in details and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
details is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for details. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
details is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing details unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are details and dilates, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from details earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in details produce 252 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.